Navy to Send Ship on Drug Patrols After Four-Month Hiatus
The U.S. Navy will resume patrols for drug runners in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific after an almost four…
Ronald O’Rourke on Coast Guard Acquisition
The following is from Congressional Research Service’s Ronald O’Rourke June 26, 2013 testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee…
Pentagon’s Sequestration Plan
The following is the July 10, 2013 Pentagon response to Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) request to the Department of Defense…
Opinion: Military Pay and Benefits Unsustainable
Study after study show that the U.S. military’s pay and compensation system is unsustainable. Defense experts from all across the…
Document: Pentagon Sequestration Impacts In Detail
From the introduction from the June Department of Defense Report on the Joint Committee Sequestration for Fiscal Year 2013: This…
Hagel: Sequestration Could Scuttle Tenth Burke
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told a Senate panel on Tuesday the ongoing specter of sequestration could prevent the U.S.…
Opinion: Sequestration is Here
The dirty word spreading across the U.S. Navy and the larger defense establishment this year is “sequestration.” It was never…
Document: May CRS Destroyer Report
From the Congressional Research Service May, 14 2013 Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress: As…
Navy Awards $6.1 Billion in Nine Destroyer Deal
The Navy has awarded $6.1 billion in contracts to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and General Dynamic Bath Iron Works (BIW)…
Document: Think Tanks Call for Personnel and Base Reforms
The following is a Monday open letter to Pentagon leaders and Congress from a bi-partisan group representing ten D.C. think…